 1 The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His inheritance. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. The Lord is their inheritance, as He has said to them. 3 This shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep. They shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks, and the stomach. 4 You shall give him the firstfruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep. 5 For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever. 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lived, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place that the Lord will choose, 7 then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, like all his brothers and Levites who stand there before the Lord. 8 They shall have the same portions to eat, besides that of the sale of the inheritance from his father. 9 When you come to the land that the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. 10 There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire or who uses divination or interprets+ omens+ or a fortune+ teller or a witch. 11 No charmer who casts spells or consulter with mediums+ or wizard or necromancer who calls on the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord. Because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be perfect with the Lord your God. 14 For these nations whom you shall possess listened to interpreters+ of omens+ and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so. 15 The Lord your God will raise up a prophet from among you, one of your brothers, one like me. You shall listen to him. 16 According to all that you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: Do not let me hear again the voice of the Lord my God. Neither let me see this great fire any more so that I do not die. 17 The Lord said to me, They have spoken well what they have spoken. 18 I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers, one like you and I will put my words in His mouth. He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 Whoever will not listen to my words that He speaks in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. 21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word that the Lord has not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not follow nor come to pass, that is the thing that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
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